The Match: The Day the Game of Golf Changed Forever
by: Mark Frost
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From the best selling author of The Greatest Game Ever Played is this powerful, emotional and suspenseful story of "the greatest private match ever played." The challenge was staged in 1956 by Eddie Lowery, former 10-year old caddie to U.S. Open Champion Francis Ouimet, and pitted amateurs Harvie Ward and Ken Venturi against Ben Hogan and Byron Nelson, the game's greatest living professionals, with 14 major championships between them. In author Mark Frost's peerless hands, the recollections of this immortal foursome and the game they played that day come to life.
From the best selling author of The Greatest Game Ever Played is this powerful, emotional and suspenseful story of "the greatest private match ever played." The challenge was staged in 1956 by Eddie Lowery, former 10-year old caddie to U.S. Open Champion Francis Ouimet, and pitted amateurs Harvie Ward and Ken Venturi against Ben Hogan and Byron Nelson, the game's greatest living professionals, with 14 major championships between them. In author Mark Frost's peerless hands, the recollections of this immortal foursome and the game they played that day come to life.
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- The Day the Game of Golf Changed Forever
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- Very Informational and descriptive!
This was a very informational book on the history of a few of the greatest players to play the game.I am a golf professional and was very impressed with the writing, the story, and especially how you go through a few holes of the match, then learn about a player, then more holes and another player etc.Fascinating how great and dominant a player that Byron Nelson was!Highly recommend this book.
Rating: - A COMPELLING READ OF AN EVENT AND OF LIVES
Most readers will find all the 5-star reviews here well deserved.Most of the reviews, however, omit the structural significance of Frost's book, namely, the juxtaposition of action at Cypress with vignettes of the lives of the four main golfers as well as those who've not yet reached their prime (Palmer et al.).As a lifelong fan of Hogan, Nelson, and Venturi, I still did not know some of the more poignent and haunting moments of their lives.
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Rating: - This Moves Beyond Golf
It's difficult for a golf book to grab you, and the reason this one grabbed me is that it is somehow beyond golf.I bought this as a throwaway for a flight home from Las Vegas, and by the time we were in our descent I was getting all choked up.The human aspect of each competitor, the adrenaline of a special competition, and the sense of character now lost combine to make this a special read.Viva Harvie.
Rating: - Talk about emotions
Ok, so here I am all alone in my house at 11:30 at night reading The Match. When I came to the part at the end with Kenny Venturi on the 18 green with Raymond floyd in the 1963 US Open, I must confess I had tears streaming down my cheeks. This was one of the most vivid compelling scenes that I have ever read. The rest of the book was just outstanding, but this last scene was off the charts. Mark Frost is such a skilled writer, he can make a game seem more important than life itself. Get this book and ... Read More
Rating: - The Match
"The Match" is my favorite book EVER on golf. If you are a golfer over the age of 55, I think you will feel the same way. If you are a younger golfer, you still will love it. If you don't play or have an appreciation for the game, I don't know.
Mark Frost is a great writer. He made this non-fiction recount of a historical event in golf an exciting adventure for me and ALL those with whom I have shared it. Thank you Dick for sharing it with me.
Thank you Mark!
- Very Informational and descriptive!This was a very informational book on the history of a few of the greatest players to play the game.I am a golf professional and was very impressed with the writing, the story, and especially how you go through a few holes of the match, then learn about a player, then more holes and another player etc.Fascinating how great and dominant a player that Byron Nelson was!Highly recommend this book.
- A COMPELLING READ OF AN EVENT AND OF LIVESMost readers will find all the 5-star reviews here well deserved.Most of the reviews, however, omit the structural significance of Frost's book, namely, the juxtaposition of action at Cypress with vignettes of the lives of the four main golfers as well as those who've not yet reached their prime (Palmer et al.).As a lifelong fan of Hogan, Nelson, and Venturi, I still did not know some of the more poignent and haunting moments of their lives.
Youngsters can read this book and not ... Read More
- This Moves Beyond GolfIt's difficult for a golf book to grab you, and the reason this one grabbed me is that it is somehow beyond golf.I bought this as a throwaway for a flight home from Las Vegas, and by the time we were in our descent I was getting all choked up.The human aspect of each competitor, the adrenaline of a special competition, and the sense of character now lost combine to make this a special read.Viva Harvie.
- Talk about emotionsOk, so here I am all alone in my house at 11:30 at night reading The Match. When I came to the part at the end with Kenny Venturi on the 18 green with Raymond floyd in the 1963 US Open, I must confess I had tears streaming down my cheeks. This was one of the most vivid compelling scenes that I have ever read. The rest of the book was just outstanding, but this last scene was off the charts. Mark Frost is such a skilled writer, he can make a game seem more important than life itself. Get this book and ... Read More
- The Match"The Match" is my favorite book EVER on golf. If you are a golfer over the age of 55, I think you will feel the same way. If you are a younger golfer, you still will love it. If you don't play or have an appreciation for the game, I don't know.
Mark Frost is a great writer. He made this non-fiction recount of a historical event in golf an exciting adventure for me and ALL those with whom I have shared it. Thank you Dick for sharing it with me.
Thank you Mark!
